Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia@social.cleverlibre.org

"Javier Milei, el candidato presidencial de la ultraderecha argentina, ha puesto patas para arriba los consensos que desde hace 40 años mantienen a flote la democracia argentina. Pretende terminar con la educación y la salud públicas, desfinanciar universidades y se opone a las leyes de aborto y el matrimonio igualitario."

https://elpais.com/argentina/2023-11-16/el-negacionismo-de-la-dictadura-que-propone-milei-no-cala-en-los-cuarteles-argentinos.html

"To tackle the climate crisis, we need an economy-wide transformation which puts ambitious objectives, like climate targets, at the centre of our economic and fiscal strategy. We need long-term, patient and mission-orientated finance. Governments — and especially public development banks — are critical in providing the kind of far-sighted long-term funding that traditional financiers shy away from."

https://www.ft.com/content/7b509fb6-4616-4461-b94f-b2332bc28c76

This image shows a nighttime scene. On the left of this image you can see a building with most lights dark. A tree sits in front of the building. In the center of the image is a brightly lit cruise ship. The right side of the image shows the reflection of the photographer and some artwork on the wall behind. #fensterfreitag

Do you think family-based GWAS are unbiased? In fact, no, they aren't 👇
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.11.13.566950v1

Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion.

But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

Read more in:
🔬 @KnowableMag https://arevie.ws/Golgi_KM
🔬 Annual Review of Physiology https://arevie.ws/Golgi_PH78

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

Where the heck did all those structures inside complex cells come from?

Scientists agree that eons ago, a bacterium took up residence inside another cell and became its powerhouse, the mitochondrion.

But there are competing theories about the birth of other organelles such as the nucleus and endoplasmic reticulum.

Read more: https://knowablemagazine.org/article/living-world/2023/how-endomembrane-system-of-eukaryotic-cells-evolved?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=graphic&utm_campaign=originals

#KnowableMagazine
#ScienceMastodon

Esquire Magazine did what CNN, The New York Times, and every other mainstream news outlet should have been doing since 2015: they published a headline about him that is actually accurate.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a45822510/trump-veterans-day-speech/

"It feels like I'm not crazy." Gardeners aren't surprised as USDA updates key map.

https://www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1213600629/-it-feels-like-im-not-crazy-gardeners-arent-surprised-as-usda-updates-key-map

On this day in 1952: Chaim Wiezmann died, major organic chemist and 1st president of Israel #ThisDayInBiotech

On this day in 1853: Emile Roux born, discoverer of cause of diphtheria and its treatment #ThisDayinBiotech

Books written by anthropologists embedded with scientists?

I'm reading a book about an anthropologist who embedded with psychiatrists for several years to figure out how they are trained an what they think. Here's a great quote:

"Sometimes they talk about mental anguish as if it were cardiac disease: you treat it with medication, rest, and advice about the right way to eat and live. A person who has had a heart attack will never be the same—he will be always a person who has been very seriously ill—but he is not his heart attack. His heart attack is in the body, not the mind. When psychiatrists talk in this manner, psychosis and depression become likewise written on the body ... Sometimes, though, psychiatrists talk about distress as something much more complicated, something that involves the kind of person you are: your intentions, your loves and hates, your messy, complicated past ... From this vantage point, mental illness is in your mind and in your emotional reactions to other people. It is your “you.”

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/104443/of-two-minds-by-t-m-luhrmann/

In it, Luhrmann references another book in which an anthropologist embedded with nuclear weapons researchers:

https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520213739/nuclear-rites

I'm so curious about this genre. Are there other books like it that you know and would recommend?

Announcing a new preLights webinar series: From preprint to publication

Martin Estermann will host this series which will focus on the journey of the preprint. The first webinar, on Thursday 30 November at 17:00 EST, will feature Prof Roger Pocock & preLighter Chee Kiang (Ethan) Ewe talking about a preprint on sphingolipid homeostasis & the development and intergenerational health of the nervous system.

More information + registration 👉 https://prelights.biologists.com/news/announcing-a-new-prelights-seminar-series-from-preprint-to-publication/

#webinar #preprint #PeerReview

Those who left Twitter, now "X", were correct to leave... "Elon Musk faces backlash for his latest tweets about Jews": https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/antisemites-are-saying-elon-musk-side-latest-tweets-jews-rcna125617